Document 21B: NAACP Chairman of the Board to Miss Mary McMurtrie, 26 October 1922, NAACP Papers, Part 7: The Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1912-1955, Series B: Anti-Lynching Legislative and Publicity Files, 1916-1955, Library of Congress (Microfilm, Reel 1, Frame 436). Included in How Did Black Women in the NAACP Promote the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923?, by Angelica Mungarro, under the supervision of Karen Anderson. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2003).

I
feel that you will want to know about a recent opportunity that has come
to us.

The American Fund for Public
Services, colloquially known as the Garland Fund, has promised us $5,000
if we can raise an additional $5,000. The money is to be used in our Anti-Lynching
Campaign. You see that makes it necessary for us to work at once to get
the needed money. We can have $2,500 when we are able to put up $2,500.

I know how much you have done
for us, but if you can assist us now once again we shall be able to enter
upon the most interesting work that I think we have ever done. Our work
on the Bill before this has been largely political and it has been most
successful.

As you probably know, the Bill
has passed the House and has been favorably reported by the Judiciary Committee
of the Senate. It should come up in the Senate early the next session.

What we need now is to have the
whole country aroused to this fact that there is an Anti-Lynching Bill and
to have the senators flooded with letters, telegrams, etc.

To put you through such a campaign,
of course, means funds.

We miss our anti-militaristic
dinners at Mrs. Leach's do we not? She surely knew how to make a committee
meeting attractive.